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Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

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This work is significant as salinity already affects over 20% of the world's agricultural soils, and salinity poses an increasing threat to food production due to climate change. Richard James and University of Adelaide student Bo Xu. Dr. Rana Munns. Nature Biotechnology doi: 10.1038/nbt.2120.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Charlie represents EV Driver in India

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It was organised by Earnest & Young India and we spoke to various secretary's to government in the transport sector as well as their teams and then various leaders from the private sector, which was really exciting! Because most of the EV’s they’d seen were 4 wheelers (cars), but 90% of their transport is on 2 wheels.

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Australia Reels From Split Weather System, Suffers Effect Of “The Big Dry” And “The Big Wet”

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We’ve seen blackouts, disruptions to many of our transport systems, greater water consumption and of course, more sleepless nights.” It’s clear that once temperatures get above 40 or 43 degrees in some of our capital cities and particularly some of the rural areas, large impacts tend to occur.

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‘The Plane Is Fine’: An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

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Flying is objectively low-risk, and 2023 was the safest year for jet travel ever, according to the International Air Transport Association. But fear of flying hardly seems irrational, what with reports of aircraft malfunctions, overworked air traffic controllers and the sense that climate change is making turbulence worse.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. “People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Bringing Back Clean Air

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Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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